How are you automating? Have you looked at puppet or anything? Puppet labs maintains a postgresql module that has all
thatbaked in. Check it out at least it can give you some ideas.
https://forge.puppetlabs.com/puppetlabs/postgresql
> On Sep 30, 2014, at 6:20 PM, Ian Barwick <ian@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
>
>> On 14/10/01 8:51, Strahinja Kustudić wrote:
>> I am automating Postgres deployment on Linux and I need to check if Postgres
>> needs to be restarted when a configuration parameter that requires a restart
>> changes, e.g. when you change wal_level. Is there a way to detect a parameter
>> which requires a restart was changed?
>>
>> Reading the log file after sending SIGHUP is not possible to automate. I know
>> I can query pg_settings and then compare relevant parameters from the conf file,
>> but that means I will need to check all parameters which I set and which require a
>> restart. I only need to know if postgres requires a restart.
>
> I created an experimental background worker which records configuration parameter
> changes after a SIGHUP is received:
>
> https://github.com/ibarwick/config_log
>
> It was originally intended to log configuration changes, however it
> might be possible to create a query based off the recorded values to detect
> changes which require a restart.
>
> No guarantee of fitness for purpose. Requires 9.3 or later.
>
>
> Regards
>
> Ian Barwick
>
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